The [18th annual Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS)](https://sites.google.com/view/yrrsds2022/home) will be held in Edinburgh (collocated with SIGdial) on September 5th and 6th, 2022. YRRSDS (<http://www.yrrsds.org/>) is an annual workshop for graduate students, postdoctoral students, and junior researchers working on spoken dialogue systems in both academia and industry. The workshop serves as an interdisciplinary forum for creative thinking about current issues in spoken dialogue systems research and helps to create an international network of young researchers working in the field.  We invite researchers at an early stage of their career (no age constraint/limit) to submit a 2-page position paper.  This should include their past, present and future work, a short bio, and topic suggestions for discussions. Poster presentation by all participants is expected. However, posters need only present current work and not necessarily be from a published paper. **Submission topics** include, but are not limited to: •  Open domain, task-oriented dialogue, and chat systems •  Models of dialogue: statistical, symbolic, and hybrid approaches •  Dialogue state tracking and policy learning for dialogue management •  Spoken language understanding and natural language generation for dialogue •  Evaluation methodology for dialogue systems •  Semantics, pragmatics, and context in dialogue systems •  Incremental spoken dialogue systems •  Situated interaction with virtual and robotic agents •  Psycholinguistic influences on dialogue system design •  Establishing social relationships and engagement with the user •  Data collection and dataset sharing for statistical models •  Industry development cycles, requirements, and applications **Important Dates** Submission open April 20th 2022 Submission deadline June 27th 2022 Acceptance notification July 28th 2022 Registration open June 27th 2022 YRRSDS 2022 September 5th-6th 2022 Looking forward to meeting you there! Best wishes, Stefan Larson, on behalf of YRRSDS 2022 Organizing Committee Angus Addlesee, Heriot-Watt University Selina Meyer, University of Regensburg Vojtěch Hudeček, Charles University Sébastien Montella, Orange Labs / Aix-Marseille University Mayank Soni, Trinity College Dublin Carel van Niekerk, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf Christian Geishauser, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf Javier Chiyah-Garcia, Heriot-Watt University Stefan Larson, Vanderbilt University   Contact email: stefan.larson@vanderbilt.edu